Halloween Costumes & Utah’s Pickleball Flex | Tracy Wilcox w/ Dynamite & Heights

We’re coming in hot with:
 🔹 A heated debate on when to retire your frosted tips
 🔹 Halloween pickleball costumes gone rogue (green unitards and Hulk aspirations)
 🔹 Fashion felonies at open play—from swim trunks to sports jerseys
 🔹 The official ruling on backwards hats, belly rings, and the Ed Hardy line of no return

Plus, Tracy Wilcox from Dynamite Pickleball  & Heights Athletic Club joins us to talk identity-based coaching, pressure-proofing your game, and building community one court at a time.

Also: Utah claims pickleball dominance—and Texas is not having it.

 🎧 Listen now before someone shows up in glitter and fingerless gloves.
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Speaker 2 (00:00.566)
I would like to go as the Hulk.

Well then how are you going to go as the Hulk? Like how are going to play like that?

I would just wear like a green tee-

she drives on every shot and smash smash smash

Okay, she didn't ask about that.

Speaker 1 (00:13.326)
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It's five o'clock somewhere.

I I love it. I can't wait to get that one.

Speaker 2 (01:53.749)
It's

So cute. I love them. They're the best pretty pickleball company. We're not just saying that we are players of with their paddles.

And I just got my new one and I'm so excited. I got the Cinderella one.

What, which one did you get? yes, yes, yes. Send a rally.

the rally.

Speaker 3 (02:07.456)
And you know, I love margaritas and I have a big, it's five o'clock somewhere sign on my back porch so I can't wait to get the Waste in a Way one. I know, it's such a surprise.

Even though you drank.

I didn't even know you had those hobby lobby signs at your house

yes, yes. The ones at our house still have stickers on the back just in case.

Just think

Speaker 3 (02:28.11)
That's okay, the photo frames in my house still have the stock family.

That's right. I remember the first time I went to your house and I was like, did you have a horse? No. You're like, no, that's just stock.

it in 2018 still has the stock family in it.

That's awesome. We love those people.

Too funny.

Speaker 3 (02:44.622)
They're just so great, they don't talk.

They're the best people. don't age either. I know.

Okay, that brings me that's a good segue. I like that they don't age so age for kitchen talk I thought I wanted to bring this up because it came up in my life This past week and I thought what is the I saw I saw a older gentleman with his ball cap backwards number one He's also probably at some point gonna be in the Sun and he's gonna put his

hand over his eyes and wonder, there something that could shade me? And it's right behind him. But what is the age or the cutoff for certain, maybe apparel, maybe, you know, mostly apparel. Like, so the ball cap backwards, what's the age or cutoff for that? And I have some other thoughts.

So on the ball cap thing, I know it's like a total thirst trap thing, like in TikTok right now. I've never, I mean, I've never worn a ball cap real. mean, I'm not sure you can check into that, but. can do your own research, but we're like frosted tips.

Speaker 1 (03:40.334)
What's the ball cap backwards for?

Speaker 1 (03:46.431)
Ow. Ow.

Speaker 1 (03:53.422)
different from Frosted

But like how old is too old to be like, okay Blink 182. We're done

Yeah, the frosted tips. How about, unless you're Adam Sandler, basketball shorts every day for everyday wear. So let's get some ages though.

Hmm.

Speaker 2 (04:12.957)
I basketball shorts every day.

Past your knees, true basketball shorts looking like a slob. Like I said, unless you're Adam Sandler or you're getting ready for the remake of the Big Lebowski, there is no need for basketball shorts as everyday wear.

But that's like, wear everyday athletic wear, so what's the difference?

If you're

You got the booty for it, that's why.

Speaker 2 (04:39.438)
I don't I don't know. I don't think there's an age for basketball shorts or hat backwards. Frosted tips. I mean, I shouldn't. I dye my hair, so I shouldn't even be. What's the age for a woman to stop dyeing her hair colors?

I don't either.

Speaker 1 (04:54.646)
I don't know. so is it a, for women, I think it's more of a graceful aging thing, right? So when do you just say, okay, graze, let's go, send it. So, I mean, I don't know, is that 50?

It's all situational.

At what point is it giving midlife crisis? Like, why are you still wearing your lettermans? How about that? That's a good one. That I feel like. Like, if you're in your 50s, we're not wearing our lettermans anymore. Like, knock, knock. No, ma'am.

Yeah, but don't let me, if I'm gonna wear it, let me put my affliction or Ed Hardy underneath it.

Right? Yeah. Okay. That's a little 2004.

Speaker 1 (05:35.63)
Right. More than that, right? my gosh. I I did have it. Yes. But I was in my, I don't know, back then I was... 50s. I was in my early 50s. I just got back from the Civil War. my gosh. you know, the war of Northern aggression.

No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (05:44.184)
50s.

Speaker 2 (05:51.598)
I mean, I definitely see there's some things that have age cutoffs. Like at what point is it just too much to be like shirtless selfie in the gym? Like you're what? You're 30? No, that's too young. Or is it like, okay, you're 70. Like now we're just doing the most.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:10.574)
I don't think that there's an age. I think that it's all about your confidence and What makes you feel happy and screw what everybody else thinks? I mean if you're 70 years old and you have the body that most 20 year olds wish that they had Thank you. Take yourself. Your selfie do it make yourself feel comfortable if you're 50 and you want to dye your hair multiple colors go for it I just whatever makes you feel good. It makes you feel comfortable

Stop it. Take your selfie.

Speaker 3 (06:39.394)
comfortable and confident then maybe

That's my letterman. Maybe that's my letterman that I wanna wear.

Do it and let people think what they want. They don't matter in your life.

about hair and pigtails.

Okay, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (06:54.062)
Ah, visible belly button rings for you ladies. when it's the guys, it's all things go.

No, I...

I don't know. mean, I guess, I mean, in all honesty, I mean, I guess if I saw like a 60 year old and I was like, really with the belly button ring? Like, I guess I could, I may say right now I wouldn't, but if I saw her walking, I probably would be like, okay, we got that going on.

Like the body glitter and the low rise jeans.

So if they were a 70 year old that had washboard abs and looked like they were in amazing shape and had a little belly button ring, I'd like, you get it girl, do it. I wish I had that kind of confidence.

Speaker 2 (07:30.85)
Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I really don't. Glitter is a little much.

Okay, well, let's

I like my body.

How about sports jerseys, like the actual jersey jersey? Go for it. If you're not a six or eight year old, you know, cheering on your favorite player, I don't, I mean, I think that one's situational. If you're going to Hooters, yes.

How about that who still goes?

Speaker 3 (07:53.236)
Yeah, nobody goes to

Their wings are amazing.

No. No, what?

No, there's so many places like

No, I get the chicken breast sandwich hold the chicken

Speaker 3 (08:02.134)
Yeah. Okay.

I just, I don't know, you're right. I think it's situational. I mean, I try not to be judgmental, but I mean, I'm sure I am at some point, you know, where I'm like, no.

situational and it's completely person dependent so I don't think that it's necessarily age related than it is who the person is.

I mean, think if I, it's certain things, like if I saw somebody wearing like fingerless gloves to like open play, I might comment in my head, like, what, why are we, why are we wearing?

Like when guy showed up to the tournament in all of his braces and then swim shorts and then put the head wrap thing on his head I'm like, okay, we're doing a little too much

Speaker 1 (08:39.98)
Well, in my defense, I thought there was going to be a best dress contest. I would have won that one. And it rained that day, so swim shorts, obviously. for men's swim shorts, we have a little thing in there that holds things in place.

No, well you would have lost.

Speaker 3 (08:53.902)
Okay, thank you for explaining that.

I do think there is a point when trampoline is not a good idea.

They want the ladies to get out of

Speaker 3 (09:03.434)
No, that's just a safety issue.

So not necessarily wearing, but at some point it's like, yes, you may have when you were younger, but now's not the time. Yeah. And I think that's probably after.

Like, okay, here we go, here's one. Okay. Dolly Parton in the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit last year.

Freaking amazing. Get it. I don't think it was last year, I think it was the year before.

I didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (09:26.126)
I don't even know what you're talking about.

She was in a Dallas Cowboy

Phenomenal and I loved every second of it. I was like if I looked like that I would be too. If I could go on national TV and look that amazing and have that kind of confidence. Yeah. I thought that it was phenomenal.

Now I gotta go look.

it wasn't for me. See, I mean... Have to be. Yeah, I mean, I guess.

Speaker 3 (09:46.91)
And that's okay. It doesn't happen. It was for her and she enjoyed it.

Did you, do you think like it's because she, should be more classy?

No, it did not fit her well. mean, on the upper half, yes. The lower half was like old lady legs just hanging out the bottom of those.

no way, she looked amazing.

I didn't see it, but I doubt she did not look amazing. She really did.

Speaker 1 (10:10.88)
I don't know. I beg to differ, I guess.

What do you expect from Dolly Parton? Do you expect her to go out in a Moo Moo? No.

I want to see the things, you know what mean? I want to be in the Smoky Mountains. yeah.

Dali world or what? What's it called? Daliwood.

Is it Dolly Land? No, Dollywood. I don't know. None of us know. It's Dollywood.

Speaker 1 (10:33.952)
It's Dolly

Either way, next podcast I'm wearing a tube top, so get it.

There we go. Everybody see your belly ring.

No.

I almost got my belly button pierced last weekend. Got it re-pierced, but I didn't.

Speaker 2 (10:47.724)
I say do whatever you want, but I mean, there may be slight judgment.

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stopped there. Thank you.

Adding your own things.

Speaker 1 (11:33.838)
And you all can get into the comment section and if we choose yours, we'll read it right here and I will add some stuff to it probably.

always.

Just

Just the tip, quick pickleball wisdom in and out before you know it. This segment is sponsored by That Pickleball Swag and their new fall collection is pure cozy chaos. From hoodies to tumblers to Halloween glasses, they've got everything you need to keep your pickle style strong all season long. Check it out at thatpickleballswag.com and use Big Dink Energy 15 for 15 % off. So this is more of an etiquette tip. Don't walk behind active.

Wait for the point to end before crossing a court. It prevents distractions, avoids accidents, and shows respect. A quick wave or nod during a break lets players know you're gonna be passing.

Speaker 1 (12:26.606)
Or if it's me, I'm coming to get my ball from your court. I'll let you know.

Speaker 1 (12:39.451)
It's time for Pickle Pals!

Speaker 1 (12:45.142)
Yes, yes, yes, once again with Picklepals. Pickleball coaching is easy when everything's going right, of course. Tracy, though, teaches how to play when it's not. She's the founder of Dynamite Pickleball, a coaching brand and court that's shaking up the game by combining physical training, mental performance, and identity-based coaching to help athletes explode past their limits. Tracy isn't just running drills, she's building confident, pressure-ready players who can show up when it counts. So if you've ever melted under a match pressure, who hasn't?

second guessed your game or struggled to unlock your next level. I'm looking to go from 1.5 duper to two. This one's about to blow the lid off. Tracy, thanks so much for being on the Big Dink Energy podcast. Yeah, we love this. And we know you, I gotta shout that out right away. I'm a fan of what you guys do in the Harker Heights Athletic Club too.

Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Speaker 1 (13:30.216)
Because that's the court that I play at when when I go out there, but I got to know, know dynamites in California So I got to know with dynamite where did that come from? Was there a moment that made you go all in was there like that? Aha, or are you a tennis player who's like I don't want to do this anymore. What's the origin story there?

Well, first of all, my origin and how we found pickleball is we have a friend who is she actually plays senior pro Kara Williams and she's been a friend for a long time because of Brady tennis camp and would come to Santa Barbara and stay there and we just got to know them really well and She is like you need to come try pickleball and we're like, well, okay And so we tried pickleball and then we learned about our local courts and then we went out there and I am

I always grew up as a competitive athlete in soccer and basketball. When I found pickleball and I learned there was tournaments, I was all in. Then my husband was too. We were like, wow, this is awesome. Then we were coaches too for soccer, for both rec and club level soccer coaches and basketball coaches and for youth. I don't know, it just came a natural fit.

teaching license and we started just teaching on the side and it was fun. And then COVID hit and in our city in Santa Barbara, was the one approved activity. So we started teaching through the city and our classes just went rocketing sky rise. And we just started teaching. And then the interesting thing about Dynamite pickleball, our setup is very different than Heights Athletic Club. Like Heights is a full on athletic club with these awesome courts and Dynamite.

we were looking for courts to build a business out of, and there was a hockey rink that the hockey players weren't using during the day. So we went to the hockey players and we're like, do you think we could put some pickleball courts on here? So we did the properties owned by the state. So then we were able to start building our business there, and then we were able to take over the lease, which is a whole story in and of itself.

Speaker 4 (15:39.97)
we are able to resurface the courts. So in Dynamite in Santa Barbara at Earl Warren Showgrounds, we have seven pickleball courts and then we share the space with roller derby, with roller hockey and with futsal soccer. And so we have a whole business there where we roll on our courts, roll off our courts, but then we do tournaments, we do clinics, we do scrambles, we do open play, we do a lot of different things there.

That's awesome. And I know the mental side and mental performance for you is really huge in this. What made you pick like the mental aspect of the game or being high level mental performance in sports? What made you choose that path as to being central to kind of your approach?

Yeah, I was taking clinics with a pro in town and when I started doing that and then I, I don't know, there's just something in me that I wanted to go from a 3-0 player to a 4-5 player. I mean, I want to be a 5-0 player. That's my goal and play senior pro pickleball. And when I started one,

going through the process of becoming better. I was noticing all the voices in my head. was noticing, I don't know, pickleball in and of itself exposes a little bit more than like soccer, like on a soccer team, there's 11 people on the, I don't know, in pickleball, there's only two. And so I don't know, it's a sport that exposes more of your weaknesses. It also highlights more of your strengths too, but it also exposes a lot of your weaknesses. That was really hard for me and

I was struggling and struggling and struggling and with it and with having this coach and all of this stuff. And then I have a friend that I met on Facebook, her name is Dottie Berry, and she was like, I'd like you to come to this positive intelligence pod with me. And I was like, hmm, okay. And so I did it. And I don't know, the positive intelligence is all about, you know, recognizing your judge and then knowing what your saboteurs are. And I don't know, it was life changing for me. And then I was,

Speaker 4 (17:43.05)
Everything I was struggling with, I was then also seeing on the court as I was coaching. was like, was starting to just start to recognize it. my gosh, their judge is coming in, are the saboteurs coming in? I can't believe. I can't believe they're saying some of this stuff. Like you hear people say, I'm not good enough. I suck. I this, I that. You can see their body language. You can see how frustrating they are with themselves. Anyway, so my process just kind of.

naturally went into what my coaching was doing and I don't know. It's like when you're, you you find the pot of the gold at the end of the rainbow and then you want to share it with everyone because it's been life changing. That's what this has been for me. I just, want to share it. I want to help people transform. And I think pickleball's such a, it just goes hand in hand with the mental game because of how it exposes our strengths and our weaknesses.

Yeah, I think that's a great call out because you we've said on the podcast before that You know it seems like once you get to a 3.5 Then pickleball becomes a business almost because now you're looking for the four and then from the four you're looking for the 4.5 and the fun that you started with kind of starts fading to the background and if you forget that part and it becomes too much of a business and it gets overwhelming really quick and then I think you can like some of the stuff you were saying

You can get almost an imposter syndrome in there when you start playing with other people at your level and you see, they seem way better than me, right? Like the saboteurs and stuff you're talking about. So you have, I think you probably became a youth sports coach because you carry around a youth sports team with you everywhere you go, right? You have a family, is it seven people or seven kids?

having kids.

Speaker 1 (19:23.681)
my gosh, and then you run it all effectively maybe with Big Daddy Dave as he's affectionately known. So which is harder, imagining the family of seven or a pickleball business?

Jeez, you know, they're both hard. They're both hard and they're both rewarding at the same time. But man, I will say if you want to work on your mental game, become a small business owner and that'll for sure help build your mental stamina. For sure, I was a stay at home mom all the way until COVID. And then when COVID hit and then my husband's job changed, this was the first time.

So for the last three years, it's the first time I've been a full-time working mom. having the seven kids, but as my kids have gotten older, it's been easier. But I will definitely say, yeah, being a small business owner has been something I had no idea would be so hard.

Yeah, yeah, no kidding. And I don't know if you run your house the same way Stephanie runs our house, but I'll just tell you, we have two regular kids and then she kind of has a third when you include me into the mix. So.

I saw some your kids, I got to meet some of your wonderful kids at the courts and I'll just tell you what, not only business side but family side too, you guys are doing a fabulous, phenomenal job on both sides of those things, I'll just tell you that. It's such a pleasure to meet kids who have respect and they have a real joy. You can see a joy on their face and you don't see, sometimes I think we're missing that in kids nowadays. They don't have their joy and they don't have their happiness because they think it comes from a phone or a device or something like that.

Speaker 1 (21:01.878)
So for you, do you train? Obviously we can train skills, right? And Chance out at your club is a really good guy for skills and building skills. And I know you are too, but how do you train a player to manage the pressure versus just skill execution?

Yeah, think part of it is I have started to realize that people, I don't know, I was doing a lesson this morning and one of the girls, you can tell, she starts backing away from the kitchen line. And what it is is it's her nervous system is saying, I'm scared, know, balls are coming fast, I'm scared, I'm scared. And so I think for me, it's one, my biggest job is to recognize that in them first and then to kind of help them.

try to rethink why they're scared or why they're moving back is part of it. So I don't know, I heard a great at church on Sunday, the pastor was talking about mental fitness is your mind telling your body something different than your body's telling your mind, right? And so that's a lot of it is for me to figure out how to get the mind.

to tell the body something different than what the body's telling the mind. And even in like a shot, I was working with this lady, she really wants the shot, you know, and she wants the backhand flick and she can't do it without the wrist and all this stuff going. And what I realized is that her picture of the shot in her mind was wrong. And so I had to stop and it's a lot about stopping and just

getting them focused, right? I had to stop and we had to reconstruct what the shot looked like in her mind. And it was amazing because she went from not being able to hit the shot, to be able to hit the shot within a minute of just rethinking the shot, right? Because now the mind is telling the body and the body was trying to tell the mind. know, she had this whole idea about what the shot should look like, how her body should be doing the shot, but it wasn't.

Speaker 4 (23:08.524)
the right picture. So for me, it's really about trying to create that picture in their mind. So if they're nervous, it's about trying to rethink some of the things I call it the shifting, we're shifting the inner shift, you know, so she can then feel more confident at the kitchen line when she's there, because what happens is your feet go crazy, your body goes crazy. Everyone knows this feeling, right? Like we're all a little crazy and we're all going all over the place and it shows up in our feet.

And it's because our nervous system is going a little wild, a little crazy. So for me, it's really in the end, it's putting people in those situations and then rethinking how they're doing it. Because if they can experience the calm and the chaos on the court with me, they can replicate that in open player tournaments.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. that, yeah, that's so big for most people. I hope they're getting that too, where you may need to reconstruct the you have in your mind of the skill that you're trying to achieve. know, you just have the wrong picture and you can't recreate that. You can't trace over that if it's the wrong picture. It's going to show up wrong every single time. So I absolutely love that. So between the, you know, the two courts, Dynamite and Harcourt Heights Athletic Club, you know, the whole...

but you have the courts there. It's all a brand. You you guys are bringing a different vibe and a different feel to it. So what's the mission, I guess, that kind of connects the two for you all when you have these courts?

Well, our tagline in Dynamite is a culture of play. And for us, think in the end, us, pickleball is about community first, building community. I just, I love pickleball because it doesn't matter what, you're a Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter how old you are. It doesn't matter if you go to church or you don't go to church. It doesn't matter about who you are when you come to the courts, you just come and then

Speaker 4 (25:05.718)
you are able to enter into this community of people and build community over time and get exercise and have fun. Pickleball's open to the person who wants to be a 2.0 forever and then it's available to the person who wants to be a 4.5 or a 5.0, you know? And obviously there's always gonna be community that has some inks in it and some things you have to navigate. I don't know, that's...

Our first mission is to build community and to help people get healthy with exercise and they'll laugh and have fun.

Yeah, that's so important. And that's really what brought us to pickleball was the community. You see that in different little pockets, like the motorcycle riders, they're typically either community, that's a good community, they surround, they put their arms around each other. So I absolutely love that. And of course we hear a ton of times, kind of like yours, where pickleball players were born out of COVID, because we're struggling sitting in our house and being isolated. Our human animal is something that wants to be communal. That's how we've always been.

And so pickleball is that great place to do all that. next chapters, moving on the one year, three year, five year, what's the kind of the next vision you guys have for Dynamite or for Harker Athletic Club for you guys? What's your next vision?

I mean, I think our vision here, particularly at Heights, is to build more of a culture of training. We feel like pickleball is such a cool sport because it's easy to learn, but hard to master. So we want to build more training opportunities, build, you know, kind of become a hub for really good training. And with Dave and I and Chance, we have.

Speaker 4 (26:48.436)
the instructors to do it. So I want to do that. We actually are, we've been talking a lot about Mahjong and pickleball because Mahjong is kind of the same thing. It's easy, well, it's kind of hard to learn, but it has some really cool correlations to pickleball and it has that community feel too where it builds community in a different way.

As funny as it is, it's actually becoming more prevalent in our community to play mahjong and want to learn it. And it just seems like a really good fit for pickleball. So I would say those are our two biggest visions.

I like that. So kind of off topic, who wins in a fight? A Domino player or a Mahjong

I have no idea, but I would say probably a Mahjong

More technique in that one. Okay, so let's do a little Dink or Destroy. It's a this or that. I'm going to give you two choices. You can only pick one. Can't go down to middle and pick both. Okay. All right. Mindset work or mechanics? Private coaching or high level clinics? Texas or California? I will judge you on this.

Speaker 4 (27:45.186)
mindset.

High level clinics.

Speaker 4 (27:52.11)
Unfortunately, all my kids are in California, so I choose California.

Dang it, okay, that's a good one, that's a good one. Play analysis or pressure drills. Perfect pregame routine or best paddle tech.

Press your drills.

Speaker 4 (28:05.262)
pregame routine.

Okay, confidence or shot selection? Courage, get out there and just do it. So listen, Tracy, it's been awesome talking to you and listening about your story and all the things you got going on at both chords, at Dynamite and at Harcourt Heights Athletic Club. Where can people find you? How do they get a hold of you? What's all the socials?

Neither courage.

Speaker 4 (28:26.35)
So my personal social is T. Wilcox Pickleball and you can find me there. then Heights Athletic Club and Dynamite Pickleball are both our handles for the pickleball businesses. So Santa Barbara is Dynamite Pickleball and Harker Heights, Texas is Heights Athletic Club.

Awesome. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because I think there's something to do here where, you know, that show, Seventh Heaven, it's off the air, but I think we can bring back a seventh pickleball and it just surrounds you and the big family and pickleball.

Yeah, let's do it. And Dave, we need to, you guys need to talk up to Dave and have Dave and I talk about how to partner together as a husband and wife.

I can always use help and coaching on that for sure. Put on a clinic for that and I think we're there. Thank you so much for being on Tracy. We love having you and obviously I think we're gonna see you later today as a matter of fact.

Yeah, I think Friday. All right. think we switch it to Friday morning, but we'll see you. you later.

Speaker 1 (29:20.576)
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (29:28.75)
That was startle B. Really? Yeah, it's startle B too. Did you see me jump?

My heart.

Speaker 1 (29:36.61)
Dang it.

I f***ing jumped.

Same, my heart is.

Yeah, I thought you were joking. Oh my god. Test hurts. You almost came out of your chair. Okay, Did you destroy those things that we dink? We send it over the net, thumbs up for us, or destroy thumbs down? Definitely not for us. You wanted to, it was, I mean Halloween's coming up, so you want to talk about something Halloween related.

That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (29:45.045)
Like my

Sorry, you can just go.

Speaker 2 (30:01.518)
So I've seen tons of different pickleball courts out there talking about their Halloween themed tournaments and open plays and just different events where people dress up and they, you know, wear costumes. So I wanted to know what y'all's thoughts were. Are you gonna show up in your, you know, Dallas gal girl outfit?

I brought my birthday suit.

my god.

So I mean would you play do you like it dink destroy what are we?

Do you know why witches can't get pregnant? Yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 (30:32.942)
Does their husbands have Halloweenies?

my gosh.

There's a dead.

That's the only thing I could think of when you started the Halloween stuff. Had to get it out.

I know. So I think it's super fun. I just don't know how you'd play like if your costumes like...

Speaker 1 (30:49.966)
I think so. Yes, but I think your costume has to be built towards your game.

Part of the fun though.

Speaker 2 (30:56.46)
Right, I think you make your costume so it's usable. Right. Right, so you're not trying to do like a big extravagant, I don't know, like Bumblebee transformer costume. Right, yeah. And try to play a game. So maybe just some cute, you know, little style outfit. But I think it's a really fun idea. I think it gets people in the spirit, it changes it up, it makes it a little bit less, I don't know, like, yeah, like.

stoic.

I any occasion where I get to dress up and have fun and so to me it's definitely a yes.

Especially with the tournament, think it just brings a little bit more of the fun into it and people aren't as, it's really hard to get pissed at somebody when they're dressed up like a cat. Yeah.

Like if I could

Speaker 1 (31:40.376)
Standing across the court from like 13.

Like, hey, Darth Vader. know, it's hard when you're looking at, you know, Joker's face. You're like, that line was...

Yeah, so you can see people's character, so to speak, within them. What's important to them? Why do they dress this way? Because you don't just pick a willy-nilly costume and throw it on. You put a lot of thought into it, especially where you're going, where your peers are. So your face paint is on point, your costume doesn't look like a hobo.

don't know if I do face paint with the way I sweat though. Yeah, because I would totally dress as the Hulk, but I ain't paint my body all green. It's gonna wash off. it. Wash off.

get to wear.

Speaker 3 (32:21.39)
That would be awesome.

She-Hulk out there. With your purple bathing suit on. Jennifer Walters.

I'm too old for the bathing suit. think it's super.

Yeah, okay, so I guess- No, let's toss it around the room. What's your costume then?

Battle Princess?

Speaker 3 (32:38.176)
What's mine? Yeah. I would definitely wear something with a tiara and rhinestones and full glam. absolutely. Okay. Any chance I get to wear a tiara? I'm doing it.

Me too, girl. Slay. Probably Superman. That's underneath his clothes right now, if you're watching the video.

What would you dress as? Yeah, that's the only outfit you have in the closet.

Speaker 2 (33:00.654)
Thank God there's not a phone booth over here. I would do probably something easy that I could just look at, find something in my closet and just make it. I'm not really one for dressing up. I like other people dressing up. I think that's fun. Maybe I'll go as the Hulk. Is that you, Clark Kent? It is me.

I know.

Speaker 3 (33:19.086)
Like an 80s night would be a lot of fun.

I like themed stuff like that, 80s, 90s, like that. I'm just not really like a big, huge costumey person, like where you have to put a lot of effort in.

Yeah, I mean but so you could go 80s right that means that's a costume by itself get your leg warmers on and your your belt with your bathing suit Yes Physical physical sounds like it should be though

Jane Fonda look. But I really would like to go. not Jane Fonda. I would like to go as the Hulk. it's O.N.J. Olivia Newton-John.

Thanks

Speaker 3 (33:51.47)
Then how are you gonna go as the Hulk? Like, how are you gonna play like that?

I would just wear like a green t-shirt.

It drives on every shot. mean, it's smash, smash, smash.

Okay, she didn't ask about that. would wear like green unitard.

just want to make sure we're

Speaker 1 (34:06.23)
I don't think we can say that anymore. Green special tart? No.

I don't think it's appropriate. No, I would wear like a green unitard and then just like purple basketball shorts. There you go. That is the horriblest look in my head. Just being a full piece unitard. Never mind. I'm not doing unitard.

Can stop saying that word? Never go full Unitard.

Isn't that what it's called? Or is it called a bike-tard now?

What? Can you two stop it? We're gonna get cancelled.

Speaker 2 (34:38.094)
Unitard, bike-tard, mustard. Anyways, that's what I... How did we get here?

Mustard

Speaker 1 (34:46.55)
I don't know. You're a Hulk smashing your way through this. I'm a dink.

So Hulk, Superman, Princess. I've read that. something. Just a princess. Okay, we could deal with that. I'm dinking. Yeah. I'm a re-dink. Tell us

I'm a ding.

So I'm

I'm just a princess. I'm always a princess.

Speaker 1 (35:02.936)
We're all big, Cere. What do you think? Get up in the comments.

Apparently there's witches in here. Someone's making a brew, it sounds like.

All I can think of is skidamarinky dinky dink skidamarinky doo.

Speaker 2 (35:24.078)
News you can use.

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Okay, so before we go on to news, can use two backstories here. One, we were making a TikTok for bare naked stuff, because we love using their paddle cleaner. And so that was a whole hot mess. And I kept spraying them in the face because we were trying to do something and it wasn't working. Second of all, we legit, I forgot about this, got caught at Dick's Sporting Goods making a TikTok by the employees. Nice. No.

Speaker 3 (36:30.382)
No!

I shut down. Like, I stood there and I was like,

I kind of froze too because I saw her coming through the clothing racks and then I caught her looking at us and I couldn't say anything like shut it down or turn around.

Is that the one with all the paddles?

Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:48.82)
I was in mid-sentence. laughed. boy.

And you can hear them.

Speaker 2 (36:55.726)
You can hear the music from the TikTok that we were using and then it was just a whole, it was embarrassing. I was embarrassed and we just sat there and just like hit our face and laughed for a hot minute and.

But we have not finished the video, so we closed the deal. We got it done.

Good. did do it, but okay. News you can use. You think of California, Florida, and Texas as being like the big pickleball states, but the Beehive state, which is, does anybody know? Utes. Yes, Utah. Good job. General knowledge. smart. Know it. Yeah. So Utah. Utes. Has the biggest pickleball obsession per capita. Get out of here. to Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's about to level up.

You don't have the cap of a bean.

I didn't.

Speaker 2 (37:41.038)
with a massive new project, the Utah Pickleball Center in South Jordan. Privately funded to the tune of 25 million. This complex is set to be home base for the state's MLP team, the Utah Black Diamonds, and will host two major pro tournaments every year. But they didn't forget about the everyday players. One court will seat 1,000 fans and another 2,000. But here's the best part, 45 total courts.

including 15 outdoor courts and 13 on the roof. So Utah is showing up on roof. Okay, Luda. All right. So pickleball paradise in the mountains. What do you think? She ever did.

Roof! Roof!

Speaker 1 (38:23.086)
You ever get out of the way? just don't don't think so. Move. Okay, first of all, who, who, where's this? What's the source? Go back to the, Okay. So Guy Beverage News says Guy Beverage is the best per capita. Come on. It's, it's your state and you're writing about your state. You're not the best Utah. No, Texas is. We are the best in Texas. We do everything better. We're bigger. We have waffles in the shape of our state. Ambrite.

don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:32.749)
Lake Tribune?

Speaker 2 (38:47.724)
And the stars at night are big.

Deep in the heart of Texas.

Bye!

We could, our whole state is a facility. Okay?

45 quarts.

Speaker 1 (39:06.446)
Yeah. Why, hey Jebediah, why do you have so many women on your side of the court? Is that essential oil you have there?

Speaker 1 (39:18.658)
That's where doTERRA

typecast in the whole state and force it to.

Come for me Utah! in our comments!

is beautiful. We've at the Pickler in Utah and it was awesome in Salt Lake City. Anyways, 45 courts, shit ton. use me. I think that's what the Tribune said. 25 million, shit ton of courts.

I'm gonna a there.

Speaker 1 (39:43.438)
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